News - Super Talent sets its sights on the mainstream with affordable VSSDs

[HEXUS]

Value solid-state drives available with prices starting from around £50.

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[semo]

the technology is not mature enough for a value range to viable.

ocz and others have tried but here in the uk the "value" and high end stuff carry pretty much the same price tag.

unless you have an expensive controller that does decently on random write, has a FUNCTIONAL TRIM (rather than just a tick box) or aggressive background garbage collection you won't want to touch these.

[watercooled]

You could probably get a faster and higher capacity USB flash drive for the price...

[TooNice]

It would have to be pretty to lose to a flash drive in random write. Going by the Corsair Flash Voyager GT, it wouldn't take much to be faster (and they come much slower too!): http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=19859&page=4).

[cordas]

The intention is here, whether these drives are ready yet is a different question but the signs are good, sooner or later someone will bring out a drive for ~£100 thats got a decent capacity (80gb+) and performance that makes it a nobrainer upgrade.

[HW_90]

You could probably get a faster and higher capacity USB flash drive for the price...

faster, definitely not

higher capacity, yes, easily on the low end, just about on the high-end

[watercooled]

I was being a bit sarcastic
Yeah it's definitely a move in the right direction but they aren't really large enough to be useful. Also HDDs offer higher sequential read/write performance than even those quoted 'best-case-scenario' speeds. Hopefully they will have a half-decent controller which doesn't ruin random access performance like other 'value' drives have in the past...

[TooNice]

8GB at £50 is atrocious a value though. That works out at £6.25/GB. The larger capacity is competitive in terms of price, but only about equal what we already have, and that's assuming similar performance (at least in random read/write).

[MadduckUK]

that is pathetic to such a level i had to go check it wasn't a mistake.

[kellyharding]

Perhaps they need to seperate the controller from the flash modules, so you get a controller on a mobo, and then buy a storage drive, kinda like how SCSI works. Might be a better way forward perhaps... of course it could also be oddball and unworkable lol

[this_is_gav]

Perhaps they need to seperate the controller from the flash modules, so you get a controller on a mobo, and then buy a storage drive, kinda like how SCSI works. Might be a better way forward perhaps... of course it could also be oddball and unworkable lol

Note quite the entry-level drive, but sort of what OCZ have in mind with the Z-Drive R2.

[Calmeister]

Too small and slow to be of any use, but I guess its a step in the right direction, right? Probably won't have TRIM though, so it will suck.